Hello,
Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
> when installing a package into a profile Guix very helpfully tells you
> that you may need to set certain environment variables. It doesn’t tell
> you that these environment variables can also be set by source’ing the
> generated etc/profile file.
>
> I have seen the bashrc and bash_profile files of many users and they are
> usually full of conflicting environment variable definitions. In these
> files I often also see these Guix recommendations.
>
> I think Guix should suggest sourcing the generated etc/profile file
> instead of listing explicit environment variable definitions. It would
> be less noisy and less confusing, in my opinion.
>
> What do you think?
When (re)sourcing etc/profile, you might clutter some variables. For
instance, if you do that several times, you can end up with:
PATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/bin:$HOME/.guix-profile/bin:$HOME/.guix-profile/bin:…
Conversely, the hint upon installation disappears if the entry is
already present in the variable.
That’s a fine point but I occasionally rely on this as a user.
That said, I understand your concern. What about changing the message
to:
You might need to run:
. …/etc/profile
Alternately, you can define the following environment variables:
…
Too verbose? Confusing?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
